Consumer Protection

United Airlines will no longer use police to remove passengers from full flights after the uproar over a man who was dragged off a plane by airport officers in Chicago, the carrier's chief executive says.

Debt management agencies offer to solve people's financial woes by taking control of their money and liaising with creditors, but customers and lawyers have labelled some of these companies "debt vultures" who prey on the vulnerable.

A father and son buying a property south of Perth uncover an email scam that could have cost them $200,000, with authorities saying it is the first time they have seen fraudsters posing as settlement agents.

Australia's "worst fears are being realised" when it comes to gas supply, and the market is in crisis with residents most likely to bear the costs, ACCC chairman Rod Sims says in a speech to a gas conference.